And I tho't pro athletes were tough! Headline: "Buchholz on DL with broken fingernail"

[bertha katzenengel]

:rofl:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080514&content_id=2698967&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

I know baseball, but when I saw that I understood and cracked up simultaneously.

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Hey, Babe Ruth missed like 50 games in 1925

with gas. :D

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. Or a bad case of the clap according to some sources

:P

[crimsonblue]

3. from what I heard...

his junk started boiling over and looked like a raw piece of meat. that's a visual for ya. :P

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. That is awful!

Thank God for Penicillin!

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. That was gonna be my next post

Sort of a cliffhanger ending, as it were...



:(

[Reverend_Smitty]

6. I beat ya to it!

:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Only because

I didn't get a reply from BK that would allow me the opportunity — a comedic set-up, y'know.



That, and I was takin' a nap. :crazy:

[AteAlien]

7. Some athletes are still tough

but there are those who get caught up in themselves and the potential future loss of revenue - more revenue than I will make in 20 lifetimes - and seek protection.

He should insure his fingernails through Lloyd's for 70 million. Jesus fuck almightly. Most of us work every damn day for money to put food on our families!

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. More likely

it's the ball club protecting its investment.

Back when the average major league salary was around $30,000 (not that long ago, really), guys were typically expected to play through pain — throughout the '60s, Mickey Mantle often took the field with his train-wreck legs wrapped mummy-style.

Can you imagine how many days Mantle would spend on the DL (and how much he'd make) if he were playing today? :crazy:

[AteAlien]

10. I getcha

Mantle's knees would have had him on the bench today for his last five playing years.